Nokias new foray into the Music World

Albeit being a Nokia user for quite some time now, I have never liked the design of phones churned out by the Worlds largest mobile phone maker!

Nokia seems to be in a mood to "etch" these sentiments in my mind forever by their latest gimmick.. Nokia today announced the launch of three "Music Oriented" phones - the 5300 XpressMusic, Nokia 3250 XpressMusic and Nokia 5200 XpressMusic.. The Xpress lingo obviously derived from the "funky" removable snap on cover thingy...

The 5300 and 5200 are series 40 devices..5300 being the flagship model. This time interestingly, Nokia has chosen to opt for the micro SD platform for memory expandability instead of the usual RS-MMC, although we have seen Micro SD implementation in a few S60 devices in the past..

The 5300 supports up to 2GB of memory and has dedicated music buttons. (Which music phones doesn't have those??) According to Nokia, this is good enough for 1500 of your tracks rotting away in your pc to be transferred! lol. Nokia has also provided a 3.5 mm jack (Thank God!) this time.

The other model launched was a spiced up 3250.... will talk about that phone in my future posts... gotta hit the sack right now!

Peeping tom!

Hello folks!

Back in here after quite a while.

I have now decided that this blog of mine will be regularly updated. (Once a week).
I currently have a very hectic schedule.

My day begins at 4:35 a.m in the morning. Have to leave by the 5:40 a.m train to Mumbai to make it to the 8:00 a.m shift.

I should ideally leave office by 5:00 -5:15, which would have been nice...but unfortunately it doesnt happen most of the time. Meetings and deadlines ensure that my stay at the office is lengthened by a couple of hours...

I usually leave office by 6:15..6:30 to reach home by around 9:30....only 7 hours to go before my next day begins...

Lifes busy...

Its been quite a while since the last post here...

Some changes in my work profile can be blamed for this! Was shifted to another department at office which asked for another shift. This shif t makes sure that i cannot commute back home to palghar where m pc is...

Only able to use my pc on weekends these days...

Lots of things to say...
Lets start with the keyboard...the Casio!

The thing is working perfectly fine but again, no time thses days!

I will be here tomorrow (Sunday

Right mow cant think of anything worth writing here!

The WK-3700

I am buying a brand new keyboard this week most probably!
After lots of research and going through lots of reviews, I finally zeroed in on the Casio WK-3700

Almost all pro musicians despise casio, But one session with the WK-3700, you forget its a casio!
I was keen on a Yamaha/Roland board but saw that the WK offered much more for the money spent.
As i'm just into keyboards, a pro keyboard isn't necessary.
This keyboard is HUGE...
Has 76 keys (thats better than the standard 61 keys) and has both Smartmedia card and a floppy bay for storage purposes.
Some recording ability and line-out functions just in case you have a live concert!

I had my eyes on the Yamaha DGX series before having a look at this board.
The DGX are great machines, but are somewhat limited by their lack of line out functions.

The price?
The current price is around 32000 buks (thats a lot of money!)
But I am 99% sure of getting this one by next week!

Wish me luck folks.

The day after....

Yesterday, had to the most painful day of this year for mE!
I visited the dentist twice! Once in the morning and then later in the day...
The infection in my gums had become quite big, I was unable to open my mouth even to drink water.
Speaking was a nightmare. Calling up the office folks to tell about my condition too was impossible.
Anyways, in the morning visit to the dentist, he just administered some anti-inflammatory medicines and then told me to report back to him in the Evening!

Went back at 7:30 in the evening.
He then proceeded to "break" the inflamed part.....without administering any anaesthetic!
He used his dangerous looking instruments to break open the "boil" and what followed was something you see in hollywood horror movies...
Blood oozed out for minutes...
The pain was unbearable.
But at hat moment, i was feeling victorious having conquered the irritating infection.
I hope this doesn't recur now.
me now leavin for job.
Will post later tonite!

Toothache!

Please brush your teeth...and do that proeprly each day! I am right now suffering the consequences of ignoring oral hygiene .
I had a root canal job done three years ago and the cap has come of now. The worst part is the infection. My gums are swollen and i can't even speak legibly right now.
The pain is unbearable.
I will not be able to go to office today due to this, which means a deduction of 1000 bucks from my performance incentives!
But this is like one of those times when you don't really care about such things.
It is 5:55 a.m right now and I am longing to visit the dentist by 10 a.m.
I will be keeping you folks posted about further developments.

Ok..here we go!

Finally gettin some time to post stuff here.. The pic you see above is of my workplace..




Working for MS does have some advantages....
We have two lcd monitors (with 2 fully loaded cpu's to boot) at workplace..
My workstation is a Dell machine with 512 mb ram and an Nvidia gpu (i forgot the model)
The other machine is a gaming rig.. 1 gig of ram.., Nvidia Geforce MX -4000 (i think..).
Good enough tp play halo, and nfsmw at decent resolutions.. I would love to see this beast with an ATi X1800 XT!!

And did you folks notice the keyboard with finger-print based login?
Cool I should say!


I being in the Windows Update department, however seldom get enough time to really squeeze that max outta these beauties.
The Gaming folks who occupy the desks just beside us are the luckiest of the lot! Imagine getting paid for playing all your favy games...

Water Under The Bridge...

Yeah.Wierd title.
Thats all that came to my mind when i see myself now...
The last time I posted something here, yours truly was a jobless, unemployed (by sheer will and determination) guy addicted to a vibrant web forum...


Much water has flown under the bridge since then.
The same guy got a job with a certain Mr.William Gates' company.

The last few months have been a really turbulent period of my life!
From a hopeless, unemployed, lazy guy to an Employed, agile and outgoing (in this case outgoing stands for going out of the house, since earlier I seldom used to get out of my 20*20 room)
guy.

Am happy.
Things have changed a lot in a mere two months!
Look forward to posting here more often now.
Will be getting a new phone next month (Most Probably a smartphone or a Walkman series from SE)

For the time being,
Chow!!!